Emergency Management Specialist (Response)

Duties

In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist preparing for and carrying out or coordinating emergency functions to respond to emergencies and disasters and to aid victims suffering from injury or damage resulting from disaster caused by natural or man-made hazards. Typical assignments include:

• Provides disaster resource coordination and management in support of disaster field operations.
• Conducts mission-oriented analyses of difficult and complex survivor-centric emergency response issues.
• Compiles, reconciles, and correlates voluminous workload data from a variety of sources with different reporting requirements and formats.
• Performs work that involves the operational planning program and organizational analysis that encompasses difficult and diverse projects.
• Provides guidance to internal and external customers concerning complex, unusual, or unprecedented response management initiatives.

Qualifications

You qualify for this position at the IC-09 level (starting salary $53,030) if you possess the following:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the IC-07 level in Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:

1. Applying analytical and evaluative techniques to identify and resolve issues or problems of a procedural or factual nature;
2. Creating presentations, reports, briefings, and project papers for management;
3. Providing guidance or assistance to internal and external customers concerning response management initiatives.

OR

A Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B. or J.D., if related

OR

A combination of education and experience

You qualify for this position at the IC-11 level (starting salary $64,161) if you possess the following:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the IC-09 level in Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:

1. Performing high-level reviews, analysis and assessment of operational information for creation of reports for management, orally and in writing;
2. Applying a wide range of emergency management concepts and practices and performing administrative and operational projects with minimum supervision;
3. Communicating with a variety of individuals and groups on controversial issues in order to provide assistance to internal and external customers including state, federal and tribal emergency managers.

OR

A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., if related

OR

A combination of education and experience

You qualify for this position at the IC-12 level (starting salary $76,903) if you possess the following:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the IC-11 level in Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:

1. Gathering and assembling a wide variety of factual information to analyze complex programmatic, operational and financial situations, draw conclusions, and use creative ability in devising solutions;
2. Planning and establishing an organizational analysis program that includes catastrophic planning.
3. Assessing, inspecting and evaluating emergency management processes, plans, standard operating procedures, and guidance for compliance.

The qualification requirements listed below must be met within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

NOTE: Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume. For a brief video on How to Create a Federal Resume, click here.

Current or former FEMA Reservists/DAE employees: To accurately credit your experience for these intermittent positions, make sure to list the dates (from MM/YY to MM/YY) of each deployment, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.